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hauteur

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hau=teur

CIDE DICTIONARY

hauteurn. [F., fr. haut high. See Haughty.].
     Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hauteur, n. haughtiness of manner.

Etymology
F f. haut high

THESAURUS

hauteur

Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, airs, altitude, arrogance, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, ceiling, clannishness, cliquishness, condescendence, condescension, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, despite, disdain, disdainfulness, disparagement, domineering, domineeringness, elevation, eminence, exaltation, exclusiveness, haughtiness, haughty airs, height, heighth, high horse, highness, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, insult, loftiness, morgue, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overweening pride, patronization, patronizing, patronizing attitude, perpendicular distance, pride, prominence, proudness, purse-pride, ridicule, scorn, scornfulness, side, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness, sovereign contempt, stature, stiff-necked pride, sublimity, superbia, superciliousness, tallness, toploftiness, uppishness, uppityness

ROGET THESAURUS

hauteur

Pride

N pride, dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti, pride, haughtiness, high notions, hauteur, vainglory, crest, arrogance, proud man, highflier, fine gentleman, fine lady, dignified, stately, proud, proud-crested, lordly, baronial, lofty- minded, highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high- plumed, high-flown, high-toned, haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown, vainglorious, purse-proud, fine, proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer, bloated with pride, supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential, arrogant, unblushing, stiff, stiff-necked, starch, perked stuck-up, in buckram, strait- laced, prim, on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes, on stilts, en grand seigneur, with head erect, odi profanum vulgus et arceo, a duke's revenues on her back, disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon, pride in their port, defiance in their eye.


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